
Butterfly’s Child
A Novel
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Jennifer Ikeda
Internationally acclaimed author Angela Davis-Gardner draws inspiration from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to craft this deftly imagined furthering of the famed opera’s main characters. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and his wife Kate bring a three-year-old Japanese boy home to their Illinois farm. But when their neighbors learn the truth about the boy’s heritage, the fallout is devastating.
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Critic reviews
“In its way, it holds its own alongside the modern Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy.” ( Kirkus Reviews)
This book would have been better narrated by a male voice; the female narrator's voice was too full of sunshine and optimism for this story and felt geared to a young audience. A perfect narrator for Little House on the Prairie. For instance, it gets comical when she recounts Benji's romps with prostitutes. I could never think of Benji as anything but a boy, even after he'd grown up and married and had a child. In addition, her exaggeratedly correct enunciation of Japanese words wears thin, similar to the local news or weather folk who trill their R's when encountering a Spanish word in an otherwise English newscast.
A Great Story Unrealized
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I believe teachers will one day use this book as an example of the
damage done to others with thoughtless behavior and how it can reverberate
through time causing great difficulties, all this and wrapped in the gift of a story I would not have wanted to miss. It is so much more!
Great Book
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